Betty Davis

July 16 1944 February 9 2022 was an American singer songwriter and model best known for her controversial sexually-oriented lyrics and performance style and for being the second wife of trumpeter Miles Davis. Ruth Elizabeth Davis known from early childhood as Betty was born on April 5 1908 in Lowell Massachusetts the daughter of Harlow Morrell Davis 18851938 a law student from Augusta Maine and subsequently a patent attorney and Ruth Augusta née Favór.

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18851961 from Tyngsboro Massachusetts.

. It included an update from 1962 to 1989. Her iconic looks were immortalized on Miless album Filles de Kilimanjaro which was released that year. But from day one their marriage proved volatile and it had more or less dissolved by mid 69.

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Life and career 19081929. Many of her fans refused to believe she was gone. Sadly Bette Davis died on October 6 1989 of metastasized breast cancer in Neuilly-sur-Seine Hauts-de-Seine France.

Betty Davis Miles Davis Miles Davis and Betty began dating in 1968 and were married in September of that year. Her last book was Bette Davis The Lonely Life issued in paperback in 1990. She wrote the last chapter in San Sebastian Spain.

Childhood and early acting career.

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